Word: abdelal
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...cannot have helped Habib that Australia's security services had been watching him for almost a decade. What first caught their eye were his connections with four Egyptians in New York. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, Mahmud Abouhalima, Sayyid Nosair and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman all had ties to al-Qaeda; all were convicted of involvement in the 1993 plot to bomb the World Trade Center. Habib joined protests at Nosair's 1991 trial for murdering a rabbi, tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable...
...Shiite political rivalries would dilute the impact of the Shiite vote, Sistani mandated a top aide to broker the deal that put the major Shiite religious parties, and many secularists and independents, under one umbrella in the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA). The UIA's electoral list is headed by Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and its dominant figures include the top leaders of the Dawa party. The list also includes a handful of representatives of Sunni and Kurdish minorities, and independents ranging from former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi...
Grigg, the 2003 U-19 Canadian Women’s Champion, was ranked second among the WISPA Rising Stars, the equivalent of a farm team for international professional squash. The same year, she lost in the 16th round of the world championship to Omneya Abdel Kawy, an Egyptian who would go on to win the championship and who is now ranked 10th in the world...
...reportedly told Israel's Cabinet that the most likely suspect was al-Qaeda, with help from the banned but tolerated group Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Brotherhood spokesman Essam Eryan vigorously denied the charge, saying the group has "huge" differences with al-Qaeda and has publicly condemned the Sinai attacks. Taha Abdel Alim, a spokesman for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government, told TIME the government believes the brotherhood was "not involved." Egyptian officials detained several dozen Bedouin on suspicion of providing explosives for the attacks but declined to speculate any further about the culprits...
...there are still some willing to make that choice. Even after his kidnapping, Abdel Hadi continues to work every day at India Base. His family begs him to stay home and grow okra, lemons and potatoes on their farm, but Hadi loves being a soldier. "I won't give up my job because of a little terrorist," he says in his office as his soldiers march outside in the blazing sun. Three weeks after Hadi was tortured, his feet are still too swollen to fit into shoes, so he wears a pair of worn house slippers as he commands...